questions before the "I am the first black woman 
" Biden 
interview and he still fricked up 
NYT is a far-right source now according to online leftists.
If they get pushed hard enough, they'll start saying all the news sources are at least right wing because none of them are "true" left news sources.
Why is Biden who desperately needs to silence the debate taking time doing an interview with a local talk show on a small 1000w radio station in Philadelphia instead of taking live questions from the national media? Clearly his aides know he can't handle any live questions from any sort of a hostile audience. Him showing up here only provides more evidence of his mental decline. The fact that he's failing to get through it without a gaffe is telling but so is the fact he is on the air there are all.
how is a scripted interview "hostile audience!?
The media is already doing a "how could we have been so misled" routine. My brother in Christ, you were doing the misleading
Gaslamp Gatekeep Geriatrics
Last year there was a picture of Biden holding a card in his hand, with the White House reporter's picture, name, the question she was going to ask, and the answer on it. Biden has referenced being told to give certain answers multiple times.
That being said, I weirdly have no problem with this example? Like, if these are local radio personalities who might be asking questions about local and state policies I can see wanting to prep ahead of time.
ETA: what I'm trying to say is the problem is not that he's taking scripted questions, but that he can't take unscripted ones.
This in addition to Kamala almost calling him vice president and him saying ho ho ho happy Independence Day this evening. Joe needs to take a rest and move to the retirement home.
ho ho ho happy Independence Day
Did you see when he said he was "in and out of battles anyway"
Around 3:30 mark. They're really hiding these videos
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1dwx7hi/2nd_local_radio_host_says_they_were_given/ 
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There is a difference between the campaign agreeing to a set of questions, versus them handing the interviewer a list. In the latter case, the interviewer has effectively become a mouthpiece of the campaign if they continue with it.
It's no different. Whether the interviewer submits the questions and the campaign teams rejects them or the campaign team submits the question, you end up with the same list. Keep in mind that the interviewer here still has a lot of negotiation freedom too. They say say, "can I ask about blank," or reject the interview all together.
centrist sub weighs in https://old.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/1dwzf97/2nd_local_radio_host_says_they_were_given/
This is 100% industry standard for any PR professional, and especially in politics. Many times, it's even agreed upon as a condition for booking.
Smear?? gtfo. If Biden's whole thing is gonna be "Look at me. I am doing interviews so I must be competent." Then 1. it is important for people to understand these are canned and rehearsed questions. And 2. He should be fricking crushing the answers. He's not.
For everyone who is defending Biden on this being standard practice, you are missing the point.
The point here was to show that he is nimble and agile enough that he doesn't need to have rehearsed.
This does nothing to help where needed and only hurts the campaign.
Goes to show how completely out of touch his handlers are
Dude. I fricking hate Trump more than you hate him. I think he is the evilest least qualified person to ever run for the presidency.
That said, I don't stick my head in the sand and pretend that all is OK in Kansas when it's not.
I'm comfortable that you are honna vote for whoever is not Trump. I am too. But we are not the electorate that matters in this election unfortunately.
The key is getting those people comfortable with voting for Biden. Or if Biden is not going to let them get comfortable with voting for him and find somebody they can vote for.
I'm sorry. I saw the fricking debate. There are absolutely fair questions that need to be dispelled in a reasonable legitimate way they're going to persuade the sliver of undecided
I never said everything is OK. Yeah, Biden's mental fitness is a thing that's going to be a factor in this election and it's the probably the most difficult issue the Biden campaign will deal with. But just because Biden has ONE political issue he's going to be facing this summer doesn't mean everything is lost or that the best response to that issue is just to capitulate entirely and accept defeat.
The point you're missing is that these kinds of tests WON'T dispel these questions. That's because when candidates do the kinds of things you're suggesting, they tend make only MORE problems for candidates, even when they're completely mentally fit. Do you think Obama was like "I'm so smart and such a badass that I'm going to forget about pre-submitted questions?" Of course not! Candidates control the narrative because that's their JOB and suggesting that the best way for the Dems to address this issue is to just throw Biden into a hurricane and let his natural mental agility shine through is more naive than you're accusing me of being.
I also think it's VERY interesting that the people who seem to be most concerned about Biden's mental fitness are either folks who were never going to vote for him anyway OR folks who are already determined to vote for him. I've not really yet seen anyone who was planning to vote for Biden but now won't because of the debate. I think there might be a great deal more classic Dem doomerism going on than many folks realize.
Trump staged an insurrection.
The end.
stupidpol thread https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1dwx7ad/2nd_local_radio_host_says_they_were_given/
Shit, i haven't seen one of these frickers answer an unscripted question in decades.
With Bidens current state every question is unscripted to him.
breakingpoints 
sub https://old.reddit.com/r/BreakingPoints/comments/1dxgopo/biden_campaign_gave_questions_to_radio_hosts/
They've been doing this for 4 years. We have pictures of Biden holding a card with a reporters picture, name, question they will ask and the answer. Only now are the media interested because they are no longer protecting him, they are tasked with removing him.
If you fools forgot or never saw it because it was only covered in right wing press
I don't know, seems like Russian misinformation to me /s
Democrats have a history of cheating. Didn't the dnc give Hillary the questions during a debate? https://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donna-brazile-wikileaks-fallout-230553
People keep forgetting how DWS and the DNC fricked everything up back in 2019 in a very similar way. DNC cheated Bernie out of a spot on the ticket back then and they're cheating democrats out of a reasonable leader in the same way today.
They're making the same mistakes the Hillary campaign did. We all know what happened.....
Democrats do not understand how much voters dislike practices of this nature.
Most democrat leaders are inherently unlikeable. We had 4 years of Trump and 4 of Biden. Trump years were better. Tired of Biden administration's bullshit
/r/conservative post https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1dwufvv/white_house_gave_philadelphia_radio_host_andrea/ 
BONUS DESTINY 
hey @arsey destiney (a woman's name) is crumbling
https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1dxm9w9/destiny_cant_sleep_due_to_recent_events/
If Trump wins, I'm never forgiving populists for crying wolf so many times and destroying our ability to communicate the threat to democracy we're facing
It feels so hard to get people to take the threat of a 2nd Trump term seriously because there has been so many people crying wolf about fascism and America not being a democracy over the past 8 years for trivial as frick reasons.
Now that we are staring at autocracy in the face, it feels like I don't have the words to use. Saying that American democracy is under impending threat of doom rings hollow when people have been saying we don't have a real democracy because money in politics, fascism is when police brutality, or the elites really run the show anyways and we don't have a say so who cares.
I can see clearly why populism is so important to the rise of fascism now. It completely muddies the waters and destroys the information ecosystem such that you can't effectively point out when a dire threat appears you need to rally around.
Just needed to vent. I'm dooming hard the past few days. We need to find creative messaging strategies because just saying "democracy is at stake" is not enough to communicate the threat we're facing in this election.
Is anything enough?
-Trying to overthrow an election
-Him being tight with Epstein
-Being liable of sexual abuse
-Pence calling him a piece of shit
-Majority of his ex-cabinet calling him a stupid butt phoney and refusing to work with him
-Meddling with our countriy's foreign relationships for his own benefits of power
-Inflation Inflammatory practices: mindless expenditure, lowering taxes on the wealthy, implementing vast tarrifs, etc.
-Paying chump change in taxes, less than your average american....
-Guilty of 34 Felonies
-Commiting Infidelity despite the christian community sucking up to him...
-Refusing to take back his words on the Central Park Incident where innocent children were falsely punished for crimes that they did not commit
-Racist and Sexist statements left and right
-Enabling the overturning of Roe V. Wade
-So many life long republicans endorsing the other side over him
-"Joking" about wanting to smash his daughter
-Him calling republicans the dumbest group of people in America
I am sure that I can fill up more issues with him but this is what I got on my mind at the moment. This election is not between right vs. left. It's between a grade A piece of shit old guy and just an old guy.
-Him being tight with Epstein
Who isn't close with epstein
-Meddling with our countriy's foreign relationships for his own benefits of power
Pretty sure biden did that
-Paying chump change in taxes, less than your average american....
Proof?
-Inflation Inflammatory practices: mindless expenditure, lowering taxes on the wealthy, implementing vast tarrifs, etc.
biden added more tariffs. Trump lowered everyones taxes.
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Biden's handlers seem to think that if he just goes out and does an average job of campaigning, that's good enough. It's not. He has to do way better than average to make up for the debate. He's failed to do that, or even understand that he needs to do it, for more than a week now. Frick this guy. I'm really not that concerned if his feelings get hurt tbqh.
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this has been our main Biden marsey since drama started for a reason:
he's always been this way even before dementia
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He had dementia when that marsey was made.
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He's always been that sort of evasive lying butthole who doesn't listen to people. NYT had an article about him being like thay since the 80s and now it's suddenly an issue when he's 90yrs old and destroying the party
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